On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Kevin Fenzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:24:21 -0400 > Tom Callaway <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Recently, I've been participating in some discussion as to how to > > enable C++11 support for EPEL builds. Specifically, R (and its large > > universe of addons in CRAN) would benefit significantly from C++11 > > support. > > > > After much discussion, it seems like the only sane way to do this is > > to use the Red Hat Developer Toolset (for el6 and el7). It is my > > understanding that all RHEL customers (and CentOS users) should be > > able to enable this repository without restrictions. > > > > I'd like to propose that we enable the Developer Toolset repo in EPEL > > and allow packages to depend on it. Thoughts? > > So, this is a SCL of newer tools right? > > Does this result in a runtime dependency? Or just a build time one? > ie, will everyone using packages built with this have to install it > also, or it's just a buildrequires? > It's a BuildRequires only because any newer features from the compiler are statically linked into the binary. See other notes at the bottom of Section 2.3: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Developer_Toolset/2/html-single/2.1_Release_Notes/index.html#Known_Issues
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